01-Sep-2010 By Stephen Crawley
Stephen Crawley takes his hat off to good food pubs that don't try too hard, but offer a good British pie and a foaming pint of beer.
24-Aug-2010 By Becky Paskin, Restaurant
A new café or restaurant will open for every pub or bar that closes over the next three years, as consumers adopt a more "European" lifestyle....
'Brakes may be applied to drink drive measures'
24-Aug-2010
Plans to slash the drink-drive limit are set to be ditched, it emerged last night. The B-test proposals would have made it illegal to drive after...
23-Aug-2010 By Jo Bruce
Licensees have one week left to enter two special awards in the "Old Speckled Hen" Top 50 Gastropub Awards 2010. The closing date for entries is 2...
20-Aug-2010 By Jo Bruce
Thousands of pubs will have their hygiene ratings made public from 1 October with the national launch of the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme.
20-Aug-2010 By The PMA Team
Tim Bacon, the entrepreneur behind Living Ventures, is lining up two more bar-restaurant openings in Manchester — the Alchemist and a concept with...
20-Aug-2010 By Jo Bruce
Meantime Brewery's new Greenwich site the Old Brewery is a finalist in two awards in Time Out London's annual Eating & Drinking Awards 2010. The...
18-Aug-2010 By Jo Bruce
Pub company Powder Train is believed to be planning a second joint venture site with Marco Pierre White. The company embarked on a joint venture...
Whitbread issues £102m of new debt
16-Aug-2010 By Hamish Champ
Pub restaurant and hotels operator Whitbread said its latest debt placement exercise underlined investor confidence in its trading performance. The...
'A pint of bare and a bag of nuts'
16-Aug-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub has increased its pulling power with punters by hosting art classes - with naked models. The Flying Duck in Glasgow has seen takings soar after...
Pubs sought for pie makeover
16-Aug-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
Award-winning pie maker Pieminister is giving away equipment, pies and point-of-sale material worth up to £3,000 to pubs that want to transform...
Exclusive: Food overtakes drink as most vital part of pubs' trade
13-Aug-2010
Pubs are now officially food-led businesses, according to figures from the 2010 Publican Market Report. The annual survey of almost 1,000 licensees...
13-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Five-site pub company Renaissance has increased profits from selling a variety of dishes using its own reared pigs. The London-based company bought...
11-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Food and drink wholesaler Booker won two awards at the him! Wholesale Awards after an independent vote.
Pubs go up against McDonald's over animal welfare credentials
09-Aug-2010
Two pubs will battle it out against global giant McDonald's to be named the country's top pub or restaurant promoting animal welfare in business....
06-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A Greater Manchester licensee has won an award from the council for promoting healthier eating.
06-Aug-2010 By Lesley Foottit
An Essex pub has launched an almost completely gluten-free menu to give coeliac customers extra choice.
FSA warns pubs on chicken liver cooking
30-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned pub chefs to check that chicken livers are properly cooked following an outbreak of food poisoning.
30-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Toby Carvery is trialling roast lamb at 16 pubs across the south on Sundays, which could replace pork permanently.
30-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
The head chef of Fuller's pub the Pilgrim Inn, Marchwood, has won a competition to find the Hampshire Dish of the Year. Aaron Pace beat three other...
29-Jul-2010 By Tony Jennings
Budvar's Tony Jennings hails the rise and rise of the gastropub — but wishes the concept could be renamed.
Pubs offer meals for man's best friend
27-Jul-2010
Pub company Brakspear has started offering meals for dogs alongside its regular food menu. The Henley-based operator has teamed up with pet food...
27-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Are you a dining pub which has added an exciting new element to your pub's business or a newly opened gastropub that deserves to get noticed? If so,...
23-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Winning products in the Great Taste Awards, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, have been announced. The 2010 awards saw 6,021 products entered...
21-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Cash and carry operator Makro is launching a Spend and Save promotion that could save customers hundreds of pounds on cookware. The offer knocks 80%...
21-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has blasted a council for awarding his gastropub just one star out of five under the Scores on Doors scheme.
19-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
The founder of the British Larder, a website for foodies, has opened a Suffolk pub — the Cherry Tree pub in Bromeswell, near Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Nestlé Toque d'Or champions crowned
19-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
University College Birmingham has been crowned champion of the prestigious Nestlé Toque d'Or competition after beating four rival teams. Judges...
19-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Wholesaler Booker has converted its 100th site into a Booker "Extra", with plans to complete another 20 sites by April 2011. The company started a...
Rosie Jones is the new BigD Babe - and she's a brunette
14-Jul-2010
BigD has finally crowned its new Babe. Rosie Jones from Sunbury in Middlesex beat thousands of contestants to win the modelling prize. Last Thursday,...
Whitbread to spend £7m on green initiatives
13-Jul-2010
Whitbread, the hotels and pub restaurant group, is to splash out more than £7m on green initiatives across its estate, including 'low-flow' showers,...
12-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Mitchells & Butlers brand Toby Carvery is offering customers an unusual dessert option — a Yorkshire pudding ice cream.
'Food Standards Agency to be abolished'
12-Jul-2010 By James Wilmore
The Food Standards Agency is to be abolished by Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, it emerged last night, after the watchdog fought a running...
09-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
High street chain Slug and Lettuce is launching a summer specials menu across its food and drink offers from 12 July. The food menu will comprise...
08-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
D'arrys Cookhouse & Wine in Cambridge has launched a lunchtime flatbread menu with a 15-minute service guarantee or customers don't pay. The...
07-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
An Edinburgh Chinese restaurant has been giving diners alcohol for free while it waits for its licence.
BigD's babehunt down to the final five
06-Jul-2010
BigD has named its top five finalists in the running to become the next BigD babe at this week's VIP walk off at Modo in Liverpool. After a two...
Sell more, Save More: Bag bigger snack sales for your pub
05-Jul-2010
Woody's Bar Natalie Coleshill at Woody's Bar has made great progress with her crisps and nuts fixture over the course of the Sell More, Save More...
Yorkshire food is top attraction
01-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
An East Yorkshire freehold has reopened following a £500,000 refurbishment — the Star at Sancton in East Yorkshire.
Sell More, Save More: Snacks - profits in the bag
01-Jul-2010
Back in February, both the rural and community pubs in our Sell More, Save More project had no clear strategy for their snacks offer and indeed had...
01-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
Orchid Group is offering a value carvery offer in 15 sites, with plans to extend the concept further. Three new sites are trading as value...
29-Jun-2010 By Becky Paskin, Restaurant
Gordon Ramsay Holdings has closed one of its pubs, the Devonshire in Chiswick, blaming the state of the pub industry for its demise. Having opened...
28-Jun-2010 By The PMA Team
Managed pub company Orchid Group has unveiled a 2.7% increase in like- for-like sales for the 14 weeks to 5 June across its pubs and restaurants.
Pall Mall cigarettes in the pink
21-Jun-2010 By Robyn Black
British American Tobacco UK has been chosen the colour pink to brighten up packs of Pall Mall cigarettes.
Opinion: Time for change of tax
17-Jun-2010
'It's time for change' was one of the recurring themes played by our political leaders during the recent general election campaign. It's a message...
17-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A London licensee is attracting quality customers by accepting reservations via social networking site Twitter. Since setting up the pub Twitter...
17-Jun-2010 By Jo Bruce
Seven pub groups have signed up to take part in this year's British Food Fortnight, which runs from 18 September to 3 October.
17-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Three London bars are taking part in a campaign to drive sales of Italian cured meats in the UK. Bars taking part are Mews of Mayfair, Drake &...
17-Jun-2010 By Phil Mellows
Phil Mellows defends Britons' rights to a pub lunch following a Drinkaware announcement that "lunch is dead".
Scores on the Doors star ratings ditched
14-Jun-2010
The 'Scores on the Doors' initiative is now one step closer to being rolled out following the publication of independent consumer research. The...
